Siege of Tarentum (308 BC)

The Siege of Tarentum occurred in 308 BC when two armies of the Roman Republic laid siege to the Greek city-state of Tarentum (present-day Taranto, Italy), which declared war on Rome due to feeling threatened by its conquest of the Gauls and Samnites. Secundus Julius' 517-strong Roman army won a battle against Captain Aristandros' 401-strong Greek army when it attempted to assist Kalas of Dyrrachium's 534-strong garrison in fighting back against the Romans, and the Romans assaulted the city in winter. The Romans were victorious over the Greeks, and they massacred 11,592 Greeks after taking over the city. The Romans proceeded to convert Tarentum into a Roman city from a Greek colony, and they would press on to Croton in 306 BC.